Improved plate-lifter and bread-toaster



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Letters Patent No. 97,093, dated November 23, 18039.

IMPROITED PLATE-LIFTER AND BREAD-TOASTER.

'kv-49M* The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom fit may concern.-

Be it known that I, T. D. KEITH, oi Mayville, in

the county of Dodge and State of Wisconsin. have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Plate-Lifter and Bread-Toaster; and l do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact de-k as seen at B B, and with their other ends secure in,

the handle`C.

This handle may be made of wood or of any other suitable material, its end being strengthened by aferrule, as seen at D.

E represents a slide on the rods A A.

1t is made ot' a single piece of wire, so coiled that eyes :ne formed at the points f f, through which the rods` A pass.

From the eyes f, the ends of the wire are twisted around the rods, as sen at g g, and then the ends are heilt so as to form right angles, as seen :tt 7lh.

The extreme ends it, form (with the rods) hooks corresponding iu position and notion with the hooks B B.

Mode of suitable size and strength, any size plate may be lifted thereby, by moving np the slide. Slices of bread for toasting are held in the same manner. The position of t-he rods is controlled by the eyes ff, the distance between the hooks B B heilig contracted by moving the slide forward, and increased by drawing it hack.

The advantages ot' this simple and cheap contrivance, over the ordinary appliances for the objects intended, aremany and obvious, and will be readily understood and appreeiated by housekeepers.

Having thus described my invention,

Whatl claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

A compound plate-holder and toaster, consisting of rods A A, hooks B B, slide E, and handle O D, each of said ports being constructed and arranged, with respect to the others, in the manner described.

T. D. KEITH.

lVitnesses:

E. I. Darm, W. A. MANVILLE. 

